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Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that got hung up in the bureaucratic morass out in Houston-the Riverside National Bank, which was the first black bank in the State of Texas. The resident agent, who was a friend of mine--Dr. Edward Irons, who was a graduate of Harvard University

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the years under the leadership of Bob and the chairman of the committees LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was very inept; I mean I was just a beginner as a stenographer. So I was pretty much on my own~ but I went through the regular political process that all young people do when they go to Washington. I went to the National Committee to get a letter
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
election as speaker; LBJ’s role as Texas director of the National Youth Administration; LBJ’s campaign for Congress after Buchanan’s death; funding for the campiagn; how LBJ met FDR; how LBJ’s departure affected the Texas NYA; LBJ at Keach’s wedding; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in national Democratic politics? A: Yes, the position as mayor of Atlanta, and really my period as mayor of Atlanta extends from--although I came into office in 1962, 1961 was a campaigning year and an election year,and then I was very active in business

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the purpose of justifying my budget. It was patty-cake. Everybody on the committee, Democrat or Republican, was kind and considerate. (Laughter) I remember there was a great deal of sympathy expressed toward me and my problem, and a willingness to be helpful
and LBJ to discuss the postal budget; getting congressional approval for the Post Office Department budget; the Post Office and Civil Service Committee members who did not support adjusting postal rates; the influence of direct mail organizations; Senator

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

National Democratic Committee. That committee was floundering around and not doing very much and Lyndon, in effect, set up his own. His money undoubtedly came from oil sources. into the source. I never dug When I caught up with Lyndon he made it very
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

don't have recorded, he was very hopeful that we would have some substantial national monument designations. I think I was as surprised as anyone else peripherally involved with the situation when I read in the press the final size of the designations
[For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

beg your pardon--this was on the first one. He was going to Boston from Manchester, and I was going up to Manchester to meet him. Kenny O'Donnell, who was handling his campaign from the Democratic National Committee, called up to say on no account

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

legislation, we had proposed it in 1966. We could not get it out of committee in the Senate because of the fact that Robertson essentially--Senator [A. Willis] Robertson--wanted a gutted bill, and Paul Douglas on the other side wanted a bill that was much

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were saying that every community has to have a committee of poor people. Why don't we have a national advisory committee made up of poor people so that poor people from different districts would also come together occasionally and exchange experiences
; "maximum feasible participation": how poverty programs helped people understand the potentials of the democratic system; public involvement in poverty programs; Community Representatives Advisory Committee; Humphrey meeting with the CRAC people; union

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROY MILLENSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Millenson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: As I indicated, the last time you talked about the Senate Labor Committee, Senator Javits' work on the committee
in nursing legislation; a minority amendment related to closed captioning and George Murphy's involvement; Javits' involvement in other health-related amendments; Wilbur Cohen's effectiveness as a lobbyist; the National Defense Education Act and student loan

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

elements. I think that the National Committee was the gathering agency for the bringing of all the states in. He never used any practical old-line Democrats that knew the country. He brought in people from Texas, and they were limited in their knowledge
campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the commission? L: Oh, I think it was the President's. After all, DeBakey was the famous heart specialist; he was a Democrat--and there aren't all that many Democratic doctors who are well known--and he was from Texas. G: You had worked with him before? L
The genesis of the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission; Dr. Michael DeBakey; goals of funding national clinical research; influence of the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James Shannon; LBJ’s interest

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

were going to be able to have a Democratic National Convention in Chicago because of the threatened IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] strike. (Interrupt ion) R: It wasn't the IBEW, it was the communications workers and the IBEW; I
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Chicago Belt Railroad threatened to halt Democratic National Convention.

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to put you on a committee. I know you want to be on it, but I want you to remember who put you on that committee." I think that's why he was really so effective. He worked at it. He put in one hundred per cent of his energy and his life and everything
; speculation that LBJ might run for president in 1956; the 1955 tax bill; the Reciprocal Trade Bill; Smathers' view of Medicare legislation; parliamentary procedure in the Senate; the 1955 Minimum Wage Bill; the 1960 Democratic National Convention and LBJ

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is that Scott Lucas had gotten defeated in 1948 [1950]. That left a rather dangerous gap in the Senate. Up to that point there had been an understanding in the Senate that the Democratic leaders would come largely from the Middle West. It was because

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

amendment there was the disability program at age fifty. That was one, if I recall it correctly, and that's the bill I have in mind, where several of us on the committee favored the disability protection. The people from the American Federation of Labor

Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

politics . That is, I was a precinct officer and was a member of the Dallas Democratic Executive Committee as a precinct chairman . You were operating then pretty close to the grassroots? B: I held no offices any higher than that, but was interested

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

at the airplane at the National Airport the next afternoon, as I was leaving the city. Macy had asked the President whether he would want to see me and unfortunately I was getting on the plane when they were paging me in the airport. So I missed
into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in terms of military aid. I thought that just generally, in terms of economic aid, one of the very apparent problems was the fact that the foreign aid program is built on being opposition to communism, rather than as nation building. I think as it looked
Clark as attorneys general; the so-called Kennedy and Johnson camps; Edward Kennedy's work on the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare; Senator Ralph Yarborough; former senators as presidents.

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

a brilliant husband who had been the assistant chairman of the then-Republican National Committee, and I finally got him interested really in Johnson, and he voted for Johnson the last election. But he was originally a Republ ican. But he was very, very
Dr. Michael DeBakey; the Heart-Cancer-Stroke Committee; LBJ’s interest in helping people; Albert Lasker giving money to the University of Chicago; George Brown; the regional medical program; Senator Lister Hill; Dr. James Shannon and the NIH; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out of committee. We were able to defeat it in committee, I believe it was, the Public Lands Committee of the Senate where they had before them a resolution declaring that the Tidelands were a part of the national domain. F: Now, whe n

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Deputy Representative to the Security Council of the United Nations. You are also a member of a number of organizations including the Civil Liberties Union, the American Juridical Society, National Society on Medical Research, and the NAACP
Biographical information; LBJ as speaker at commencement; 1961/1965/1966; personal relationship with LBJ; phone calls; appointment as Deputy Ambassador to UN and to Committee on Trust Territory and to Board of Visitors of Naval Academy; other Negro

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Long -- II -- 2 husband, Stuart Long, had certainly done a great deal to help organize the state that year, and he was on the Democratic Executive Committee, and he

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that it was possible to have a greater impact on a national committee of that sort than in our own small vineyard putting up signs and carrying banners. F: Are you a Democrat by political persuasion, are you apolitical or-- L: No, I am a Democrat. I've been
Meeting LBJ in 1963; Robert McNamara; Dean Rusk; David Bell; Ralph Dungan; James Farley; Alfred Gruenther; Eugene Black; John Gardner; General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs; James Perkins; Robert Kintner; Kennedy Center

Oral history transcript, Frank Pace, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Hannegan, who was also head of the Democratic National Committee. At then- Attorney General Tom Clark's suggestion,Bob Hannegan took me in to administratively run the Post Office, because he had other responsibilities. He had a considerable closeness

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a favorable vote, even out of his Ways and Means com mittee, for an early tax increase at this time. With the congressional elections of 1966 looming, his committee members, including key Democrats and probably including himself, would not favor putting

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from working on legislation. But [in] any case, they thought they'd have a rest, and they get this monumental legislative program. G: Do you think it was largely a desire to mollify the pressure from the civil rights groups and committees that led

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the Selective Service Advisory Committee [National Advisory Commission on Selective Service] when we get to that and their report on the problems. I mean I know we got a letter from a bunch of university presidents complaining about--I think [Director

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Governor Price Daniel, who was a young lawyer in Liberty, Texas during the 1930's and whose political star was beginning to rise. I supported him actively. F: You knew Price Daniel then back in your young Democratic days? H: Yes, I first met Price
in work of ICC; JFK assassination; President of National Trade Association for Inter-City Motor Bus Industry; return to government service in DOT; maritime industry; Urban Mass Transit; formation of DOT; Alan Boyd; party for Luci and Pat; LBJ established

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the landscapes that we passed through in Texas. M: I believe you told me that that trip was a little bit overshadowed by some national events at the time. F: Yes. The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the subsequent riots in the nation's capital were
[For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

~ Republicans or at least non-Democrats, as most of them were, to serve on that welcoming committee for the President. Then they asked if we'd put on a rally--not actually a political rally, but gather a substantial crowd if we could for the President's
Political background; LBJ's support of poverty program in Detroit; use of phrase "The Great Society" and how it began; role of Public Officials Advisory Committee; Detroit Freedom March with MLK in 1963; creation of HUD; Model City program; U.S

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

\'Ioul d be up there speaking on some subject and every- / body was gone. rilW: And the Senate Democratic Policy Committee staff. GW: Right. All the official operations, the bill clerks' room and the whole thing all had to stay in operation while

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't want to stop you. CG: I'm guessing at, say, a week. How long did you stay down there? We stayed there until the Democratic Executive Committee met in Fort Worth. I don't remember that date. See, it met just ahead of the Democratic state

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the Education Committee in the House, as you know. The remarkable thing that we were able to work out was that the Republican effort to splinter off, and this is partly because of their own blunders, did not pick up a single Democratic vote on tellers

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

reflect the national party and the platform of the party. But [we wanted] to get these fellows involved rather than just in direct opposition, as in the old concept of the southern Democrat-Republican coalition. And now you have fellows, whether it's
The John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration's relationship with Carl Vinson and other southern Democrats; funding for an aircraft project and Vinson's argument with a staff member over his decision to support JFK; the knowledge and influence

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Pennsylvania Avenue, which was set up by Kennedy on- :the recom mendation of Arthur Goldberg, who had headed up a presidential ad hoc committee designed to set some policies for the nation as to the architectural standards of the country, with particular
; GREEN BOOK; LOOK magazine feature; Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue; John Saylor; Lady Bird’s Committee for the Beautification of Washington; THE AMERICAN AESTHETIC; reflecting pool at the Capitol; Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall or national

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it not been for the March 31 speech. I think the timing of that speech was such that it changed the tempo of both his campaign and of Senator Kennedy's campaign. B; Incidentally, someone said that the Democratic National Committee at that time and indeed

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

several months, June, July and August 1965, proceed on the basis of the understandings that you reached in the spring of 1965. T: That's correct. G: You testified and issued statements to the various congressional committees that met to consider

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. In that context, I felt that last Friday evening's meeting following the President's departure was a debacle." I also sent a note to Rowe appreciating receiving his critique. He had suggested coordination with the national committee; I pointed out to him that I
continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office

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